Best Wishes 2025 !

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Hello World, We are publishing our traditional Greetings Seasons post of the year ! 

Our Best wishes for 2025…

This is the moment of the year where we have to look forward and face new challenges coming.   We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the people who have followed us during 2024 and provided feedback, shared their comments and technical info, remarks that helped us improving proposed solutions.   Thank you also to all the people that have been supporting us and helping us in improving the information provided through this blog.

We would like also to thank our customers and partners for the trust and confidence they have placed in us and  helped us in providing high quality work…during this year 2024.  

We would like to present our best wishes to all of you for this new year 2025.   We do not know how year 2025 will look like but it seems that it will not be a quiet journey….

Quick Look back at 2024…

In 2024, we have been struggling with a lot of projects and this impacted our capability to publish all the posts we would have loved to post….Even do, it was not easy, we managed to publish some posts during this year. We have been working on 

  •  Our famous xrdp-installer.  Through the year,  we have been publishing and releasing incremental version of our famous xrdp-installer script. Each version included either support to the Interim Release of Ubuntu OS or included some improvements.  The latest version (version 1.5.2) has been released recently and support up to Ubuntu 24.10 (and other supported Operating systems) 
  • A lot of changes and  improvements have been included which makes the script really useful and stable.  Thank you to all our readers for their feedback in order to improve and adapt the script as required
  • We have explored the Gnome Remote Session implementation and described pro and cons.  The tool is quite recent and we are expecting to have new features showing up with the new releases of the Gnome Desktop.  
  • We managed to update the Change GDM Background script which help users customizing even further the look’n feel of their Ubuntu Operating system. This script was supposed to be discontinued but some people asked us to update it.. so, here you go.  The script is  set to version 3.8 and provide an easy interface to work with.  We have also demonstrated how to use built in features to customize the Ubuntu Desktop interface 
  • We have been writing mainly about Ubuntu and xRDP package software
  • We had fun writing about Canonical solution and services such as Ubuntu Pro and Ubuntu landscape.  These posts are providing a first view on what Canonical can offer to enterprises…     

What to expect in 2025…..

2025 is bringing a lot of changes and challenges.  Ubuntu 25.04  will be released in April 2025 which means that we will need to look into this one. This release might introduces new features and we need to test our xrdp-installer script to ensure that Ubuntu 25.04 is not breaking anything.  One big change that might come up is about Display Servers.  More and more distributions are switching from X11 to Wayland Server.   This change could mean the end of the xRDP software solution if the maintainer will not come up with Wayland support.  We have seen that some discussions are ongoing and we will need to wait and see…

Last year, we have been busy with a lot of upgrade/update projects on Microsoft Technologies.  Microsoft focuses more and more on the Cloud but some enterprises are still running their infrastructure on premises.  Microsoft has made more and more difficult to run software like Exchange, SharePoint, Skype on premises and you need to obtain Software agreement to access these software nowadays.   

So, we have seen in the past few months is that the cloud (M365/Intune/Entra ID) are becoming important within organization.   We also noticed that more and more Linux solution find their way into the Datacentre and they start competing with the well established on-prem Microsoft infrastructure.   Microsoft on-prem infrastructure is also competing with the Microsoft Cloud solution.  We have seen 2 trends within our projects.   The first trend is to go full speed into the Cloud.  The other trend is to come back to on-prem infrastructure…. So, it seems that we will end up with a mixed or hybrid infrastructure in the future…..  

In 2025, we will continue

  • investigating xrdp software solution and update our script if needed
  • update some of our posts about MDT, PXE and Automated deployment
  • touch non Linux topics such as VMware, Exchange, Skype, SQL, Intune… 
  • and more (if time permit…)  

 

Final Notes

As you can see, there is still a lot to do and a lot to speak about but some little time available.  We will try to enjoy the short holidays to rest and come back with some news posts, ideas and some free tools or scripts… 

This is it for this post !

Enjoy your holidays and get ready for 2025.  We wish you all the best for the future…and that we will have a beautiful Year 2025 !! 

Till next Time

See ya  

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